The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle

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Seite 21 Comstock came to the door with a lantern of his own, and as soon as we
pronounced the words " Hunger " and " buffalo hunt," welcomed us Avith a
cordiality as cheering as dry stockings. A moment more, and all our belongings
were whisked ...

Seite 22 A moment more, and all our belongings were whisked out of the torrent into a
long apartment, floored with hewn plank and nicely weather- tight ; the whip
cracked on the off leader's withers ; and saying good-night to our late comrades,
with an ...

Seite 34 Butler, George and Ansell Comstock, John Gilbert, and the two remaining
gentlemen of our party went in a couple of large farm-wagons drawn by teams belonging to the ranch. Willard Head, and Thompson of the Overland station to
the ...

Seite 36 ... it to belong, and a crimson cup as large as a small althea, whose only name
among the ranche people was " the ground popp}%" though whether it be really
allied to that plant I regret my inability to state. Its plant-leaves are multilobed, and
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Seite 46 ... coming at a whistle to be fed with corn as fearlessly as a house-bred puppy.
Though called dogs, they have of course no right to the name, belonging to the
rodents, and resembling in all respects the Eastern woodchuck more closely 46
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